Emil Collett (1848 - 1904)

Born 30 Aug 1848 in Oslo, Norway

Ancestors

Husband of Johanne Andrea (Conradi) Collett — married 30 Aug 1876 in Støren, Søndre Trondhjem, Norway

Descendants

Died 12 Oct 1904 at age 56 in Oslo, Norway

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Biography

The youngest of Professor Jonas Collett's sons and his wife Camilla Wergland's sons, Emil, was born in Oslo on 30th August 1848. He graduated as a civil engineer at the Polytechnic in Stockholm and in May 1870 was employed as a volunteer in the Norwegian railway surveys where he in July 1871 assistant and in the autumn of 1875 was appointed section manager at the construction of the Røros line with a station in Aalen. From there he was transferred to the railway facility between Eidsvold and Hamar with a station in Eidsvold, where he led the uprising of the large Minne bridge, and often the completion of this facility was in 1881 permanently employed as a section engineer at the railway surveys in Oslo.^[1]

in 1890 he transferred as a section engineer to the state railway's 1st traffic district and served some such a year for the operation of the Smaalensbanen, but when chief officers at the railway investigations became miserable he returned to this department, where in August 1891 he was employed some chief with the rank of chief engineer. About his business as head of research, a position he held for 13 years until his death, it is stated in an obituary in Aftenposten for 13 Oct 1904:

In this post, Collett displayed a rare skill that, in conjunction with a work ethic and a work ethic that never seemed to tire, won him deserved and warm recognition from everyone with whom he came in contact just as his straightforward confident personality made him the best comrade and most reliable colleague. With clarity he oversaw and with certainty guided the continuation of the extensive investigative work, which was founded by the later deceased Lekve, and at the head of which then chief engineer Lysgaard had stood for a short time. Of Collett's works in this year, special mention may be made of those which included the Bergen line. Inspections, which he made here not long ago, and by which hand some usually did not spare his strength, were perhaps not without part in the serious turn which a strong-willed combat sickness finally took.

Well deserved was the award he received when, in 1897, for merit of railway essentials he was appointed a knight of the Order of St. Olaf. Not only before the Norwegian Railway Administration, but everywhere in the districts where the hand went, Chief Engineer Collett will leave an honored or held memorial. Similar statements, in which the fine and noble personality of hands is especially emphasized, appeared in other Christiania magazines' obituaries.

Emil was born in 1848. He was the son of Peter Jonas Collett and Camilla Wergeland. ^[2] He was baptized 17 October 1848 at Aker, Akershus, Oslo.^[3]

During a stay in Trondhjem at the railway facility between Røros and Støren, he became engaged to Johanne Andrea Brodtkorb Conradi, who was then visiting his sister, Seophie Petersen, married to the resident chaplain in Støren Andr. Laur. Petersen. She was born in Vardø on the 2nd of June 1850 and the daughter of a captain in the infantry, commander of Vardøhus Paul Host Contradi and Margrethe, b. Brodtkorb. The wedding took place in the chaplain's yard in Støren 30th August 1876.^[4]

They had three children (1) Margrethe, born 1877 and married John Oliver Wardrop, English consul in Bergen; (2) Camilla, born 1878, married Harald Buch; (3) Jonas Georg Johan, married Maalfrid Dobloug.

He passed away in 1904. ^[5]

Sources

1. ↑ Familien Collett og Christianialiv i gamle dage, 395 (Troverdighet: 3).
2. ↑ Familien Collett og Christianialiv i gamle dage, 395 (Troverdighet: 3).
3. ↑ Record of the Birth and Baptism of Emil Collette. Ministerialbok for Aker prestegjeld 1842-1852 (0218Q).
4. ↑ Record of the Marriage of Emil Collett and Johanne Andrea Conradi. Ministerialprotokoller, klokkerbøker og fødselsregistre - Sør-Trøndelag, 687/L1001: Ministerialbok nr. 687A07, 1863-1878, s. 164.
5. ↑ Familien Collett og Christianialiv i gamle dage, 395 (Troverdighet: 3).